How I Grew the Revenues from Scratch to $2 Million Following These 5 Business Principles?

While working for an employer ensures regular monthly pay outs and brings along a sense of financial security, working for yourself brings along an unmatched level of satisfaction. However initiating any new venture requires ability to experiment, spirit to rise up when you fail, and to keep doing that again and again. Today, when innovation … Read more →

Will Apple’s $1 billion investment towards video streaming services fuel its next phase of growth?

It seems everyone wants a stake in the video streaming pie! After Disney shocked the world with the announcement of its video streaming service, it is the turn of Apple to throw its hat in the ring. With this announcement, Apple will join the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO and a host of … Read more →

Do you experience poor traffic from Google search recently?

Bloggers out there who had been making good money from advertisement, especially Google Adsense, might need to take another look at the recent changes from Google. One of the changes was the page layout algorithm. Most Adsense publishers love to place a big 336×280 or 300×250 ad units “Above the Fold” simply because those ad … Read more →

Infolinks vs Kontera for contextual in-text advertising (split test)

TechPatio is around 14 months old/young and back in the days when I first started this blog, I tried out contextual in-text ads. Initially I went with Kontera but I never got it to work so I had to do Infolinks instead. After some time, maybe a few months I guess, I decided it wasn’t … Read more →

Wrap-up: Apple’s Record Earnings Q3 Fiscal Results 2010

Last night (for Europeans), Apple posted its Q3 earnings for fiscal year 2010. And, I know this might sound as an old record going in loop, but Apple once again beat its own records with an amazing $15.7 billion in revenue and a profit of $3.35 billion. Apple was already the second most valuable company … Read more →

Apple – Another Record Quarter Earnings (Q2)

Yesterday Apple came out with their latest financial results for their 2nd quarter, which ended March 27th. Once again, a new record. Besides Christmas periods, this last quarter was the best ever, in Apple’s history. Compared to the same quarter last year, this year the profits were almost doubled, coming in at 3.06 billion dollars … Read more →

iPad: 120,000 Pre-Orders First 24 Hours. $75,000,000 Revenue.

CNNMoney.com reports, based on calculations done by Investor Village, that 120,000 iPads were sold during the first day of iPad pre-orders. They estimate that 69% ordered the Wi-Fi only edition, while the storage capacity was almost equally divided with 33% each (16GB, 32GB, 64GB). Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group, said: “Apple has … Read more →